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Bumped into Lewis Hamilton this evening

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  1. GuyIncognito

    GuyIncognito Ten Time F1 World Champ
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    #1 GuyIncognito, Aug 19, 2010
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    A group of car enthusiasts gather every Wed. night at a cafe on Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood to talk cars/women/racing (in no particular order).

    Tonight we were fortunate enough to have Lewis Hamilton stop by the cafe to get an ice cream with his girlfriend, some supposedly famous singer (;))

    After getting over the shock of an entire table full of Americans recognizing him, he stopped for a minute to chat and take a picture with one member of our group.

    :D
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  2. GuyIncognito

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    crap, why do my pics keep rotating 90 degrees?
     
  3. sambomydog

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    Very cool, must have been a very welcome surprise. I am of to Spa next week to watch him race, and have a couple of Maclaren hospitality passes. Cant wait.
     
  4. Ferrari_Michael

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    Shouldnt he be in Woking or something? I am sure it was him who said the break in F1 was going to damage his team!!!

    But hey, can you blame him? I thought that ***** Doll was alot taller than she seems in that pic.
     
  5. kraftwerk

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    Blame Hamilton..;)

    Certainly a great guest to pop in your local, nice one.
     
  6. Bas

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    Very cool, nice of them to stop and chat for a minute :).
     
  7. Ferraripilot

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    You didn't poke him right in the eye and tell him to stop whining!?? Come on. THere went your chance lol. Only kidding. I am sure it was neat for him to have some love in the US of A.


    Schumacher goes to Utah to rock climb because no one recognises him! Who woulda thought the US would be the perfect F1 driver hiding place.
     
  8. Jeff Kennedy

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    Chas,

    You have settled into La-La Land well. Hanging out on the sidewalk area of a place on Sunset is getting pretty local.

    Jeff
     
  9. Ferraripilot

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    I have to hand it to that area for being very Euro, and many many other things. Anyway, It's not a big deal catching an outside sidewalk table at midnight to catch dinner which I always dug when in the area.
     
  10. amenasce

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    Is he bald on the top?
     
  11. Darkhorse575

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    Wow! How random. I was just across the street at Poquito Mas earlier that afternoon!
     
  12. Jedi

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    Just rotate your monitor :D

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  13. Bas

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    I remember reading a story about Schumacher at the (2004?) indianapolis GP, Schumacher was stopped close to the track for speeding, and the officer said:

    'I know the racing is in town, but who do you think you are, Mario Andretti or something?'

    To which MS replies:

    ''No, I am Michael Schumacher''

    Sheriff: ''Well I have no idea what that is, here's your ticket, sir''

    :D
     
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  15. NWaterfall

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    WHERE?!?!? I want to bump in to him!! hahah

    I read somewhere that Schumi is a big fan of the Harley Davidson VRod, owns something like 16 of them. A few years ago he came over for the USGP a week early and rode one from Texas to Indianapolis for the race.
     
  16. Il Vecchio

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  17. mousecatcher

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    very cool!

    Some cameras today embed info about the camera angle (portait or landscape) into the picture. Did you rotate the image "by hand" after importing it off of the camera? If so, and the rotation info was still in the .jpg, then other "smart" software might rotate it again.

    Or it could be that your software knows the image is rotated and rotates it for you when it displays it. But when you upload it you are uploading it in the non-rotated state.
     
  18. Johnson12

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    damn his girlfriend is Nicole Scherzinger u went up to him instead of her?? LOL
     
  19. SFTifoso

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    What the hell happened to his hair? Wow that's going fast.
     
  20. Ferraripilot

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    THAT is funny. I was talking with a attorney in Indy the other day about F1, and he said all his buddies and he would go to the F1 events while it was in town but they were one of very few locals who actually went. Most of the people were out-of-towners. Point being: the locals had not a clue as to the global magnitude they were dealing with when F1 came to town.
     
  21. LightGuy

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    Pretty cool.
    Did you get him to burn out of the parking lot ? ;)
     
  22. SlvSurfer

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    I take it that white SL behind is his?
     
  23. GuyIncognito

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    he was driving it, it had manufacturers plates. It was an SL63.

    and to the other question, yes it did look like he is going bald rather quickly.
     
  24. Isobel

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    Less weight. Damn, he's going to be faster....;)
     
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    My Obsession: Michael Schumacher on Climbing

     

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